Word: hartleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...HARTLEY GRATTAN...
News of the Nation by Sylvan Hoffman and C. Hartley Grattan (Garden City; $3.49) might turn out to be a revolution in text-teaching. It is almost certain to be a huge favorite of parlor readers and guessing-gamesters. It consists of 41 four-page tabloid editions which bring vivid immediacy to events from Columbus' discovery through Pearl Harbor...
...Magazine}, when he saw a parade of historic headlines in the New York Times 's 90th anniversary edition in 1941. Onetime Texas reporter, not a college graduate, Hoffman tried his idea on some 20 educators and historians, found them sympathetic, then found in C. (for Clinton) Hartley Grattan an enthusiastic collaborator. Author Grattan (The Deadly Parallel, Australia's Foreign Policy, etc.) once called the usual written history "academic mythology . . . because it fails to reckon with the buzzing, multifarious reality in which men acted the events...
Died. Marsden Hartley, 66, American-grained postimpressionist painter; of a heart ailment ; in Ellsworth...
...came quicker, but produced no oil. OPAdministrator Prentiss Brown prematurely announced that the pleasure-driving ban on Eastern motorists would be lifted "as soon as possible." Harold Ickes countered that Big Inch was chiefly a military supply line, would "give no more gasoline for pleasure driving." Representative Fred A. Hartley of New Jersey, chairman of an unofficial Congressional committee to speed oil to the northeast, took his committee into the White House to demand relief for Eastern motorists. Afterwards he cracked: "What we want from Washington is less gas and more gasoline...